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At 3/5/2014 04:42 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>I always found it a bit off putting that the word for hello was
>something I learned (or tried to learn) as something like
>vzdravstvytye.  Seems like it would cut down on cordiality.

We see the consequences today with Putin.

Joel

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